Coors Field will not host an outdoor NHL game this coming season/ Daniel Petty, The Denver Post

Just to reference my story on the mothership site[1], my sources tell me there will not be any outdoor game in Denver involving the Avalanche this coming season. BUT, odds are very good there will be one the following season.

I don’t have any specific reasons why Denver won’t get an outdoor game this season, which would most likely be held at Coors Field. Just that it won’t happen. We’ll all just have to be a little more patient.

The good news: Denver wouldn’t have gotten the Big Enchilada Winter Classic game in early 2015 anyway, because that game already is set to be played in Washington. It would have had to have been a “Coors Light Stadium Series” game. So, maybe Denver will get the official Winter Classic in 2016. That would be a bigger event, and probably include an alumni game of sorts – and wouldn’t we just love it if that alumni game were between the Avs and Red Wings[2]?